Elvin Garcia

Elvin Garcia was a Democratic candidate for the District 18 City Council seat in the Bronx in 2017. He previously was the Bronx borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio, a community representative for New York Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, a community affairs representative for New York Sen. J. Gustavo Rivera, and a field organizer for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

Elvin Garcia did not get the City Council seat for which he ran. But, as he writes in this op-ed, he did gain a new respect for the people of the Bronx, for the capacity of established leaders to change and for the need to reform New York’s voting system.

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